Blooming among thorns

Episode 1 - You

Even then, I was still maintaining a repetitive routine like a hamster on a wheel.

I just couldn't face reality back then

A boring life of listening to lectures, solving problems, doing homework, and sleeping

Was it you who came to me then?

My first impression was that he was dressed in black from head to toe, so he was a bit scary.

I'm getting used to that too

That night when the bright red moonlight shone

You broke through the window of our high-rise house.

You were so pretty back then...///

A necklace that shines in the moonlight

One eye is yellow and the other is purple

You said you almost died from the way you looked at me?

The one word you said to me when you looked at me then

?????

“Why… do you live so hard?”

정국

!!!!????

I was surprised at the time

The first beauty I've ever seen breaks through my 15th floor window and asks why I live like that...

I was dumbfounded, wondering if some magic was happening to me, but soon my curiosity grew.

정국

Why do you live like this?

정국

what do you mean?

I didn't know your age, but I guess it's because I'm jealous of you for speaking informally to me without thinking.

You looked at me for a moment with a pitiful expression and then left.

Through the broken window...

Do you know what my parents said when they came in?

엄마

That's why I told you to study until you collapse from exhaustion.

엄마

You must be crazy because you can't even study

엄마

I was always the top student in the whole school and the class president...

Even though I tried to explain, my mom just glared at me and started bragging about herself again.

I was dumbfounded again and didn't listen to my mom, but that one word hit home.

엄마

...You're such a useless kid.

what?

Study until you die

Listening to lectures until I die

What good is it to study while wasting your time even while sleeping?

Useless kid...

My mother, who has completely erased any respect or recognition for me

I guess you thought of me as a studying machine...

I ran out of the house, saying I didn't need anything, and sat in the alley and cried sadly.

Before I knew it, a shower was coming...

I was able to sort out my thoughts while crying.

If I keep going like this, I won't be happy even if I go to a good university.

Do I have to go this far?

I wanted to put everything down

I happened to come across an empty bottle of alcohol thrown away on the side of the road.

I think about it sometimes now

I wonder if that bottle of alcohol was abandoned by a poor person who, like me, hated life and everything else.

He threw the bottle of liquor on the floor with all his might and it shattered into pieces.

I picked up the sky and tried to stab myself

The world is seen in slow motion

A green piece of glass slowly approaching

When I was about to end it with a smile, thinking, "Oh, this is the end,"